About South

Reflection on HBCU Leadership Project and This Semester

When I chose my project title — HBCU Leadership within the context of folklore — I did not know what I would find or where I would end up. However, the more I attended class and the more topics I critiqued or wrote about and posted on…

Flannery O’Connor and the South. Looking Back on a Journey Through Space and Literature.

Weird South: Inside the Garden of ‘Outsider Art’

Documenting the South: The Final Post

When I first signed up for the course “Documenting the U.S South,” I didn’t know what the…

Weird South: Interview + Analysis

I am very glad that the university offered this course. I must admit that I had a very specific preconceived notion of what it meant to be Southern and of all things that were Southern. However this course opened my eyes to a whole new world of Southern culture. As I began to explore the desegregation of Atlanta public schools I encountered several…

Southern Reflections

The first day of class Dr. Caisson asked us all to close our eyes and anonymously answer a few questions. First she asked who in the class considered themselves southern. I, of course, raised my hand. I grew up on a farm outside of Huntsville, AL, and after a timid foray into Washington…

Ryan Vizzions: An Interview with Atlanta’s Best Fine Art Photographer of 2014

National Center for Civil & Human Rights: Center for Civil Rights

So I spent my Sunday outside of the church and partaking in a expensive viewing of the new Civil Rights Museum in Atlanta, GA. My intention was to arrive and view each area of the museum to gain a better insight to…